Blue Bell Pit

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Credits

(See also Backworth Colliery)

Sources:

	Blue Bell Pit	Index	Blue Bell Pit

Location:

Shiremoor
6 miles [10 km] NE of Newcastle

Map Ref:

(Sheet 88) NZ313713, 55° 2' 7" N, 1° 30' 37" W

Maps:

1928 map from Reid's Handy Colliery Guide

Opened:

Closed:

1915

Owners:

1890s - Owners of Backworth & West Cramlington Collieries

1900s - Owners of Backworth Collieries

1910s - Backworth Collieries Ltd.

Output:

1896 - Coal: Steam.

1902 - Coal: Steam. Fireclay.

Employment:

Year	Total	Below	Above
1896	321	262	59
1902	584	485	99
1934	12	10	2
1934	Sinking
1935	11	8	3
1935	Sinking
1936	Sinking
1938	Sinking

Colliery Management (prior to 1970)

Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Blue Bell Pit

Notes:

Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Blue Bell Pit

None found.

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

If you know of any fatalities missing from the above list then please contact us with the details and we will add them to our database.

Those names marked with , have a web page providing individual details of the accident, the page may also include a photograph of the deceased. Click on the symbol next to the name to see the web page.

Some of the names of mining fatalities on this web site have been kindly provided by Ray Ditchburn from his research into fatalities in Northumberland and are marked with .

a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Blue Bell Pit

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Blue Bell Pit

Bell, George, 17 Aug 1915, aged 48, Hewer, killed by a fall of stone

Lilley, Samuel Young, 15 Dec 1896, aged 16, Way End Boy, The rope on the engine plane broke and deceased hearing the set coming went to his rapper hole and was struck by the rope end as it passed [Inspection made & inquest attended]

Peacock, William, 22 Jan 1911, (accident: 13 Jan 1911), aged 64, Chargeman, premature explosion of shot

Pratt, Joseph, 19 Jul 1900, Hewer, died from syncope whilst at work

4 names found

1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1896 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8450), Newcastle District (No. 3) by J. L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1900 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 536), Newcastle District (No. 3) by John L. Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1934 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1935 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1936 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1938 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Contributions from Ray Ditchburn from his research into mining fatalities in Northumberland
Industrial Locomotives of Northumberland by The Industrial Railway Society, compiled by Colin E. Mountford and L. G. Charlton, published in 1983